Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'